Comparison

Rank Things vs Left

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Rank Things

This app helps you make decisions and discover your true preferences by comparing items head-to-head. It uses sorting algorithms to provide a definitive ranking of your choices, from movies to vacation spots. Share your results easily or track changes over time.

Highlights
  • Head-to-head comparisons
  • Science-backed rankings
  • Efficient comparison algorithms
  • Ready-made lists from Gallery
  • Ranking history tracking
  • Exportable results (text/image)
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Rank Things is for lists where the order matters, but the answer is not obvious. Add the options you are choosing between: restaurants, movies, gift ideas, features, weekend plans, or anything else on your list. The app asks you to compare two at a time. Pick one. After enough comparisons, you get a ranked list. It helps when staring at a blank top-ten list does not. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Build and rank any list - Start from built-in gallery lists - Re-rank later and keep the history - Share a ranking as text or an image - Work offline and sync with iCloud - Use App Shortcuts to open the app, settings, or a list No account required. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://computertechniqu.es/rank-things/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Left

Visualize your time with customizable widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. Track life progress, countdowns to important events, and monitor habits with streak tracking. Offers a clean and visually appealing way to stay aware of your time.

Highlights
  • Time progress widgets (year, week, day)
  • Life progress tracking
  • Event countdowns
  • Habit and streak tracking
  • Customizable widget styles and colors
  • Apple Calendar sync
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Left is a time-awareness app built on one idea: your time is limited, and seeing it changes how you use it. Left turns time into something you can see, then helps you act on it with habits, streaks, countdowns, and a planner for your day. TIME LEFT See where you are in the year, month, week, day, hour, and your life. Each unit is a symbol; the past dims, what remains stays in view. Your life in weeks, year progress, and life progress, made tangible. Choose dots, symbols, colors, and layouts. A quiet, honest way to face limited time without it becoming morbid. HABITS, STREAKS & AIMS Left is a habit tracker for the person you are trying to become. Build habits on any schedule: daily, several times a day, weekly, monthly, or custom. Track streaks and protect them, count the days since anything that matters, and set reminders so nothing slips. And you don't have to do it alone: share a habit or streak with a friend, keep each other accountable, and send kudos, cheers, and encouragement when it counts. With aims, you have a flexible goal tracker for anything you can count, helping you build up or cut down. Stay on track and see your progress every day. AHEAD - COUNTDOWNS & DATES Add the dates that pull you forward: trips, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, weddings, deadlines, retirement, and personal milestones. Count down to each one, import from Apple Calendar, and track both the days until and the days since. New: every Ahead date now has its own to-do list, so you can plan the small tasks that make the date happen and check them off as it approaches. Share an Ahead date with a friend, follow it side by side, comment, and add to-dos together on joint dates. PLANNER Planner pulls everything that matters into one beautiful, time-first view: your habits, streaks, Ahead dates, Apple Calendar events, Apple Reminders, weather, sleep, and workouts, together at last. Not another calendar, but a clear, calm picture of what the day is actually asking of you. Because everything lives in one place instead of five apps, Planner is a quiet ally for ADHD minds: see the whole day at a glance and miss nothing. Two new widgets come with it: a Planner widget and a Calendar widget for your Home Screen. FASTING TOOL A simple yet beautiful fasting tool inside Left. Pick a fasting window, start it in a tap, and follow every fast live from your Lock Screen, widgets and the Dynamic Island. Your history and stats are all there too. FRIENDS All-new. Add the people who matter and keep each other moving. Stay accountable on the habits and streaks you share, join an Ahead date together, comment, add to-dos, and stay in the loop as it counts down. Private by design, with no public feed. WHY LEFT Other apps give you habits without design, or aesthetics without depth. Left combines both: the widget range, the design quality, and the full set of time tools, in one app made with restraint and taste. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Rank Things4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Left at every 3 days against Rank Things's every 3 weeks. Left also leads on ratings volume (387 vs 11). Rank Things's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rank Things sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year and Left sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rank Things holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 387 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rank Things ships an update every 3 weeks, Left every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rank Things versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRank ThingsLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings) — better4.6 (387 ratings)
Positive reviews74.7% of reviews
Number of ratings11387 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB278 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperComputer Techniques LLCCntxt Limited

Customer experience

Rank Things

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Left

All ratings387 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews296 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative16.2%

Bugs and requests

Rank Things

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Left

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not working
  • Blank screen on widget after update
  • Percentage left showing -inf%

Requested features

5 requests
  • Custom lifespan input
  • Ability to set custom milestones
  • Widget color customization
  • Life widget
  • Ability to track minutes left in the day

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Rank Things

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock (Annual)$2.991 Year
27 purchases

Left

Subscriptions13
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 10 more
  • Thanks!$3.991 Year
  • LEGEND$8.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Left Premium$19.997 Days
  • Left Premium$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium$34.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$34.991 Year
One-time14
  • Left+$0.99
  • Awesome$1.99
  • Left+$2.99
Show 11 more
  • Left+$3.99
  • Legend$4.99
  • Left+ Thanks$5.99
  • Left+$6.99
  • Left+$7.99
  • Left+$8.99
  • Left Premium$12.99
  • Left Premium$29.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$49.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$69.99
  • Left Premium$149.00

Questions

Is Rank Things free?
Rank Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rank Things or Left?
Rank Things is rated higher. Rank Things averages 5.0 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 387 ratings.
Do Rank Things or Left have ads?
Neither Rank Things nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rank Things or Left?
Rank Things ships an update every 3 weeks, and Left every 3 days. Most recently, Rank Things was updated on August 29, 2026 and Left on September 22, 2026.

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